this is an irc quote database, in the style of bash.org, that aims to catalog moments on tilde.chat.
17:20 <cat> as a cat i am very interested in yarn package 17:21 * jan6 pats the cat 17:23 <jchelpau> are you really a cat 17:23 <~ben> cat is either a feline housepet or a linux command for concatenating files 17:23 <~ben> still haven't really figured that one out 17:24 <handyc> why not both 17:24 <~tomasino> that's right ben, cat is a perfect combination of two elemental opposing forces 17:25 <handyc> cat cat.txt | grep cat 17:25 <~tomasino> cats, the avatar of death and destruction, and cat, the quintessential tool for joining all things (since in UNIX, all things are files) 17:25 <~tomasino> destruction and creation 17:25 <~tomasino> cat, at his core
23:37 <~tomasino> trains are pretty cool 23:38 <~tomasino> that opinion may be biased by a love of old detective novels which inevitably feature cool train scenes 23:38 <jan6> lol 23:38 <~tomasino> ooh, space mystery! 23:38 * tomasino adds to his todo list
Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
21:54 <cat> don't forget to save regularly dudes 21:55 <cat> a friendly PSA from ya local IT teacher 21:55 <brendantcc|web> lol 21:55 <brendantcc|web> let me guess - you screwed up and closed a project you spent the last 6 hours or so? 21:56 <cat> no, because i save regularly 21:56 <brendantcc|web> lol right okay 21:56 <slipyx> also *commit early and often* 21:56 <brendantcc|web> lmaooo 21:56 <cat> my students however did not and are gonna fail the class 21:57 <~ahriman> oof 21:57 <khuxkm|lounge> massive oof
12:50 <tunas> Self-driving cars are cool until you realise they stop for pedestrians and they can walk towards you, making your car reverse, so they walk you and your car back home. 12:51 <tunas> The prospect of a smug fifth-grade student just walking menacingly towards me and my car retreating in fear is... terrifying.
10:26:27 <Kneezle|Web> Can you imagine? I would have had to spend this 40-minute walk actually enjoying the sun. Instead of hanging out with you people 10:26:41 <Kneezle|Web> That wasn't even sarcastic, I'm not a big fan of the outdoors. 10:26:41 <~ahriman> haha 10:26:46 <~ahriman> the horror! 10:27:14 <Kneezle|Web> I realized, that I was spending too much time indoors, when at one point my tired instinct was to look for a dimmer switch to turn the sun down 10:27:29 <Kneezle|Web> Needless to say I didn't find one 10:28:05 <~ahriman> hahaha! 10:29:21 <Kneezle|Web> At least to my credit, I didn't try to turn the sun off 10:29:27 <Kneezle|Web> I knew I couldn't do that for some reason 10:29:42 <Kneezle|Web> But when you're grasping around the air for a dimmer switch, you need to rethink your life 10:29:54 <~ahriman> i've actually done that before 10:30:09 <Kneezle|Web> Lol you too?? 10:30:17 <Kneezle|Web> I thought that was something unique to my stupidity
<robdrake> jan6 do you just like to argue? <Kneezle> yes, he does <Kneezle> he's also frequently right <Kneezle> but he has infinitely more patience to argue than i do. <jan6> ^_^
23:19 <~ben> compile those fonts 23:20 <praetor> hehe 23:22 <fosslinux> Run gentoo 23:22 <fosslinux> "must compile kernel" 23:22 <fosslinux> Run lfs 23:23 <fosslinux> "cannot compile kernel" 23:23 <fosslinux> Gains depression 23:23 <praetor> awww 23:24 <jchelpau> compiling a kernel is easy though 23:24 <~aewens> Unless if you overcome that depression and build your compiler, then you attain enlightenment. 23:24 <jchelpau> yes, lock yourself in a room with SICP and bootstrap your way out of depression
23:55 <~ben> i'm so lazy i still use gnome 23:55 <stompy> gross 23:55 <stompy> youre cool and all but you gotta do something about your gnome usage 23:55 <stompy> that aint healthy 23:55 <~deepend> gnome is horrible. 23:56 <stompy> yeah 23:56 <stompy> id rather use windows than gnome tbh 23:56 <~ben> wow really feelin' the love over here 23:56 <stompy> lmao
02:46:07 Naglfar | theres too many ben... 02:46:13 <-- | ben|team (ben@tilde.team) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:16 <-- | ben|carbon (ben@174-084-165-025.dhcp.chtrptr.net) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:21 <-- | ben|pi (pi@174-084-165-025.dhcp.chtrptr.net) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:27 <-- | ben|your (ben@localhost) has quit (Quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:33 <-- | ben|inst (ben@tilde.institute) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.2) 02:46:37 <-- | ben|thunix (ben@thunix.cf) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:46 <-- | ben|town (benharri@127.0.0.1) has quit (Quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:47:15 <-- | ben|home (ben@174-084-165-025.dhcp.chtrptr.net) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:47:27 <-- | ben|bsd (ben@bsd.tilde.team) has quit (quit: WeeChat 2.3) 02:46:53 ~ben | lol yes 02:47:00 Naglfar | awesome 02:47:13 ~ben | no reason lol
01:25 <~ahriman> how old are you login 01:36 <login> How old is an Australian university professor who's double-timing for the CIA, doing espionage work on the duterte regime, in cooperation with the australian intelligence community, who speaks tagalog?
23:19:10 tomasino | i'm back home 23:19:12 tomasino | pants are gone 23:19:18 tomasino | ready for some me time 23:19:23 tomasino | i'm thinking shadow tactics
13:57 <+jan6> mv handyc Gliese 581c 13:57 <~aewens|team> chmod 000 jan6 13:57 <handyc> move me to vega, then I can be a real vegan 13:57 <~aewens|team> chown handyc:handyc jan6 13:58 <handyc> handyc and jan6 star in "Just Chowning Around"
17:49 <Kneezle> there we go 17:49 <Kneezle> there we go 17:49 <+jan6> weasel 17:49 <+jan6> with knees 17:49 <+jan6> kneasle 17:49 <+jan6> with wheeze 17:49 <Kneezle> lol yes 17:50 <+jan6> kneezle, a wheezing weasel with knees 17:50 <stompy> hmmm 17:50 <~ben> wheezy knees 17:50 <+jan6> !toot kneezle, a wheezing weasel with knees
17:43 <Kneezle|shouldbeworking> I'm starting a band called HTML Encoder 17:43 <Kneezle|shouldbeworking> Looking to buy a guitar & 17:43 <Kneezle|shouldbeworking> :-D 17:44 <~ben> guitar and what? ;) 17:44 <Kneezle|shouldbeworking> lol 17:44 <Kneezle|shouldbeworking> best reply ever